"had three children; Maureen Elizabeth Reagan (1941 – 2001), their adopted son Michael Edward Reagan (born March 18, 1945), and Christine Reagan (born prematurely on June 26, 1947, and died later the same day). Wyman, who was a registered Republican, stated that their break-up was due to a difference in politics (Ronald Reagan was still a Democrat at the time). She filed for divorce in 1948; the divorce was finalized in 1949. In 1981, Ronald Reagan became the first person to assume the nation's highest office as a divorced man. This made Wyman the first former wife of a United"
"at the time). When Reagan became President 32 years later, he had the distinction of being the first divorced person to assume the nation's highest office. Reagan and Wyman continued to be friends until his death, with Wyman voting for Reagan in both of his runs and, upon his death, saying ""America has lost a great president and a great, kind, and gentle man."" Reagan met actress Nancy Davis (1921–2016) in 1949 after she contacted him in his capacity as president of the Screen Actors Guild. He helped her with issues regarding her name appearing on a Communist blacklist in"
"Nancy Reagan Nancy Davis Reagan (born Anne Frances Robbins; July 6, 1921 – March 6, 2016) was an American film actress and the wife of Ronald Reagan, the 40th President of the United States. She was the First Lady of the United States from 1981 to 1989. She was born in New York City. After her parents separated, she lived in Maryland with an aunt and uncle for several years. When her mother remarried in 1929, she moved to Chicago and later took the name Davis from her stepfather. As Nancy Davis, she was a Hollywood actress in the 1940s"
"however, following his painful 1949 divorce from Jane Wyman, and he still saw other women. After three years of dating, they eventually decided to marry while discussing the issue in the couple's favorite booth at Chasen's, a restaurant in Beverly Hills. They married on March 4, 1952, at the Little Brown Church in the San Fernando Valley of Los Angeles, in a simple and hastily arranged ceremony designed to avoid the press. The only people in attendance were fellow actor William Holden (the best man) and his wife, actress Brenda Marshall (the matron of honor). Nancy was perhaps already pregnant"
"for ""2 1/2 Jews"" at the Apple Tree Theatre in Chicago, Illinois. He was married to Metta (née Talmy). They had three children: Chicago musician Richard ""Richie"" Peter Davis, Hollywood film director Andrew Davis, and Jo Ellen Davis Friedman. Davis died from emphysema and complictions of pneumonia in Chicago at age 91. Nathan Davis (actor) Nathan Davis (May 22, 1917 – October 15, 2008) was an American film and television actor. Davis was born in Chicago, Illinois, the son of Romanian immigrants, Rose (née Marcus) and Fred Davis. He served in Europe during World War II and performed on the"
"Nancy Freedman Nancy Mars Freedman (born July 4, 1920, in Evanston, Illinois, died August 10, 2010, in Greenbrae, California) was an American feminist novelist, the co-author of ""Mrs. Mike"". Freedman (née Nancy Mars) was a professional child actress for touring stage plays, and she met her husband Benedict Freedman in 1940 in Hollywood, where he was working as a writer and she was trying to break into movies. They married in 1940 despite her poor health, which began with a bout of rheumatic fever at age three and lasted her entire life. She began writing novels with her husband in"
"F. Kennedy). Freedman's son, Michael Freedman, became a noted mathematician, and her two daughters also work in academia as a musician at the University of California, Berkeley and as the director of the medical humanities program at the University of California, Irvine. Nancy Freedman Nancy Mars Freedman (born July 4, 1920, in Evanston, Illinois, died August 10, 2010, in Greenbrae, California) was an American feminist novelist, the co-author of ""Mrs. Mike"". Freedman (née Nancy Mars) was a professional child actress for touring stage plays, and she met her husband Benedict Freedman in 1940 in Hollywood, where he was working as"
"Nancy Kelly Nancy Kelly (March 25, 1921 – January 2, 1995) was an American actress. A child actress and model, she was a repertory cast member of CBS Radio's ""The March of Time"" and became a movie leading lady in the late 1930s, while still in her teens. She made 36 movies between 1926 and 1977, including portraying Tyrone Power's love interest in the classic ""Jesse James"" (1939), which also featured Henry Fonda, and playing opposite Spencer Tracy in ""Stanley and Livingstone"" later that same year. She had her greatest success in a character role, the suicidal mother in ""The"
"Ossie Davis Ossie Davis (born Raiford Chatman Davis; December 18, 1917 – February 4, 2005) was an American film, television and Broadway actor, director, poet, playwright, author, and civil rights activist. He was married to Ruby Dee, with whom he frequently performed, until his death in 2005. He and his wife were named to the NAACP Image Awards Hall of Fame; were awarded the National Medal of Arts and were recipients of the Kennedy Center Honors. He was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame in 1994. Raiford Chatman Davis was born in Cogdell, Clinch County, Georgia, a son"
"at the Al Hirschfeld Theatre in New York. He was elected President of Actors Equity in May 2010 and served until 2015. He is the older brother of voice actor Oliver Wyman. Nick Wyman Nick Wyman (born May 18, 1950) is an American stage, television, and film actor, and is a former President of the Actors' Equity Association. Wyman was born in Portland, Maine. He grew up in Summit, New Jersey and attended Harvard University. Wyman received his big break as Freddy in the 1981 revival of ""My Fair Lady"" which starred original Higgins Sir Rex Harrison. He later created"
"to a Nazi (played by Helmut Dantine) in ""Edge of Darkness"" and co-starring with Paul Henreid in ""In Our Time"". In the 1950s, Coleman began making guest appearances on television. She also played Anne Brontë in the film ""Devotion"" (1946) opposite Olivia de Havilland and Ida Lupino. Coleman was married to Whitney Bolton, a publicity director. She gave birth to twin girls July 13, 1944. Coleman was a Democrat who supported Adlai Stevenson in the 1952 presidential election. Nancy Coleman Nancy Coleman (December 30, 1912 – January 18, 2000) was an American film, stage, television and radio actress. After working"
"appearances from 1953 to 1962, as a guest star in dramatic shows or installments of anthology series. These included ""Ford Television Theatre"" (her first appearance with Ronald Reagan came during a 1953 episode titled ""First Born""), ""Schlitz Playhouse of Stars"", ""Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre"" (appearing with Ronald Reagan in the 1961 episode ""The Long Shadow""), ""Wagon Train"", ""The Tall Man"", and ""General Electric Theater"" (hosted by Ronald Reagan). Nancy Reagan Nancy Davis Reagan (born Anne Frances Robbins; July 6, 1921 – March 6, 2016) was an American film actress and the wife of Ronald Reagan, the 40th President of"
"Jane Freeman (actress) Shirley Ann Pithers (12 June 1935 – 9 March 2017), better known as Jane Freeman, was an English-born Welsh actress who was best known for her work on British television, mostly for her role as Ivy in ""Last of the Summer Wine"". Freeman was born in Brentford, Middlesex, in 1935, the daughter of railroad engineer Arthur Pithers and his wife, Joan Dewhurst Pithers. She was raised in Merthyr Tydfil, South Wales, as a child, following the death of her father in an accident when she was 9 years old and her mother's subsequent remarriage to Russell Evans."
"Susan Bluestein Susan Davis (née Bluestein; born May 27, 1946) is an American casting director and the widow of actor Brad Davis. Born in Manhattan and raised in Queens, New York, Bluestein has spent much of her career casting television movies, including ""The People vs. Jean Harris"", ""A Piano for Mrs. Cimino"", """", and ""Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All"". She cast multiple episodes of the series ""Punky Brewster"", ""Providence"" and ""JAG"" and has cast every episode of ""NCIS"" and """" since their premieres. In 1995, she won the Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Casting for her work"
"marriage produced one daughter, Amanda. The marriage ended officially in 1963. Steedman's second wife was actress Judy Parfitt, whom he met in 1960 at the Birmingham Rep. They jointly ran Allerway Limited, an artistic creation company. The marriage produced a son, David, who was born in 1964. In his later life he suffered from Alzheimer's disease, which was the ultimate cause of his death on 4 February 2001. He was buried in East London Cemetery, Plaistow, London. Tony Steedman Anthony Francis Steedman (21 August 1927 – 4 February 2001) was an English character actor, perhaps best known for roles in"
"Priscilla Presley Priscilla Ann Presley ( Wagner, changed by adoption to Beaulieu; born May 24, 1945) is an American actress and business magnate. She is the former wife of American singer Elvis Presley as well as former chairwoman of Elvis Presley Enterprises (EPE), the company that turned Graceland into one of the top tourist attractions in the United States. In her acting career, Presley had a starring role as Jane Spencer in the three successful ""Naked Gun"" films in which she co-starred with Leslie Nielsen, and played the role of Jenna Wade on the long-running television series ""Dallas"". Presley was"
"from Brooklyn"" (1938), ""Brother Rat"" (1938), ""Mr. Chump"" (1938),""'A Child Is Born"" (1939) and ""Sarong Girl"" (1943). Davis continued to work in the music industry throughout the 1940s and 1950s, and spent several years in Detroit, Michigan where he was a popular television performer. He eventually settled in Texas, and died in Pecos from a heart attack during a hunting trip. Johnnie Davis Johnnie Davis, also billed as Johnny Davis and Johnnie ""Scat"" Davis, (April 11, 1910 – October 28, 1983) was an American actor, singer and trumpeter. Born John Gustave Davis in Brazil, Indiana, into a family of musicians,"
"was married three times. In 1948, he dated actress Elizabeth Taylor. From 1951 to 1952 he was briefly married to film actress Terry Moore. In 1953, Davis married Ellen Slack; they were married for 42 years, until her death in 1995. They had one son, Ralph. In 1996, Davis married Yvonne Ameche, widow of NFL star and fellow Heisman Trophy Winner Alan Ameche. Davis was survived by his wife Yvonne, his son, Ralph, and a stepson, John Slack III. Davis died of prostate cancer at La Quinta, California, at age 80 on March 9, 2005. He is interred in West"
"couple met while both were students at University College London. He took his acting name from his wife's paternal grandfather, the writer William Wymark Jacobs. The couple lived in Parliament Hill, Hampstead, and had four children, including the future actress Jane Wymark. He had a brother, John Cheeseman. Wymark died suddenly in Melbourne, Australia on 20 October 1970, aged 44, of a heart attack in the hotel room in which he was staying. He had been due to star in the play ""Sleuth"" at the Comedy Theatre three days later. On the night of his death, he was to appear"
"episodes. In 1971, Freeman married Michael Simpson, whom she met when he became artistic director of the Birmingham Rep while she was a member of that group. Freeman died on 9 March 2017 at the age of 81 from lung cancer. Her age was often incorrectly reported as being 96 at the time of her death, but official birth records prove that she was born in 1935. Jane Freeman at Find a Grave Jane Freeman (actress) Shirley Ann Pithers (12 June 1935 – 9 March 2017), better known as Jane Freeman, was an English-born Welsh actress who was best known"
"73. They had 2 children (Karen Louise Hoy, born 1940 and George Christopher Davis, born 1943). He lived in the same home in Santa Monica, California, from 1948 to his death in 1998. Davis won Oscars for his work on ""The Robe"" (1953) and ""The Diary of Anne Frank"" (1959). He was nominated an additional 17 times. George Davis (art director) George Davis (April 17, 1914 – October 3, 1998) was a celebrated art director. Davis began his career as a sketch artist at Warner Brothers Studio. He joined the U.S. Marines during World War II and was discharged as"
"Nick Wyman Nick Wyman (born May 18, 1950) is an American stage, television, and film actor, and is a former President of the Actors' Equity Association. Wyman was born in Portland, Maine. He grew up in Summit, New Jersey and attended Harvard University. Wyman received his big break as Freddy in the 1981 revival of ""My Fair Lady"" which starred original Higgins Sir Rex Harrison. He later created the role of Firmin in the Broadway production of ""The Phantom of the Opera"". He was cast as John Barsad in the 2008 Broadway musical adaptation of ""A Tale of Two Cities"","
"Degas, Cézanne, Picasso, and Renoir. She and her husband later donated many of the works she bought and collected, including those of the artist Walt Kuhn, to the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. They remained married until her death on September 26, 1970, at George Washington University Hospital in Washington, D.C. In 1971, he married for the third and final time to Pamela Beryl Digby Churchill Hayward (1920–1997), the former wife of Winston Churchill's son Randolph, and widow of Broadway producer Leland Hayward. Harriman and Pamela Churchill had had an affair during the War in 1941 which led"
"Edith Luckett Davis Edith Prescott Luckett Davis (July 16, 1888 – October 26, 1987) was a film and Broadway stage actress in the 1910s and 1920s. She was the mother of Nancy Reagan, First Lady of the United States from 1981 to 1989, and mother-in-law of US president Ronald Reagan. Edith Luckett, nicknamed ""Lucky"", was born in Petersburg, Virginia, the ninth and youngest child of Sarah Frances (Whitlock) and Charles Edward Luckett. She grew up in Washington, D.C., as her father worked for the Adams Express Company. Known for her vivacious and outgoing personality and style. Luckett began acting at"
"among others. The crypt of Edith and Loyal Davis is located in the marble mausoleum in Greenwood/Memory Lawn Mortuary & Cemetery in Phoenix. Edith Luckett Davis Edith Prescott Luckett Davis (July 16, 1888 – October 26, 1987) was a film and Broadway stage actress in the 1910s and 1920s. She was the mother of Nancy Reagan, First Lady of the United States from 1981 to 1989, and mother-in-law of US president Ronald Reagan. Edith Luckett, nicknamed ""Lucky"", was born in Petersburg, Virginia, the ninth and youngest child of Sarah Frances (Whitlock) and Charles Edward Luckett. She grew up in Washington,"
"dock of the Short family cottage, onto the waters of Lake Rosseau, Muskoka, Ontario, Canada. Steve Martin, a close friend of Nancy's and Martin's, dedicated a musical elegy for Nancy following her death titled, ""The Great Remember (For Nancy)"" in his collaborative album, ""Rare Bird Alert"" with the Steep Canyon Rangers. Nancy Dolman Nancy Jane Dolman (September 26, 1951 – August 21, 2010) was a Canadian comic actress and singer. She was most notable for her recurring role as Annie Selig Tate on the ABC sitcom ""Soap"". She appeared in her husband Martin Short's 1985 cable television special ""Martin Short:"
"paper endorsed her, while Truman praised her. Douglas's actor husband, Melvyn Douglas, on tour with the play ""Two Blind Mice"" throughout the campaign, spoke out on behalf of his wife, as did movie stars Myrna Loy and Eddie Cantor. Nixon had several Hollywood personalities supporting him, including Howard Hughes, Cecil B. DeMille and John Wayne. Another actor, Ronald Reagan, was among Douglas's supporters, but when his girlfriend and future wife Nancy Davis took him to a pro-Nixon rally led by actress ZaSu Pitts, he was converted to Nixon's cause and led quiet fundraising for him. Douglas was apparently unaware of"
"on the battlefield, only to be widowed shortly afterwards. A relationship soon followed and Coonan and Wellman were married in 1934. The couple remained married until she was widowed on December 19, 1975. Dorothy Wellman died in Brentwood, California at the age of 95 in 2009. She was survived by her seven children, 22 grandchildren and 12 great-grandchildren. Dorothy Wellman Dorothy Coonan Wellman (November 25, 1913–September 16, 2009) was an American actress and dancer. Wellman was the widow of film director William Wellman, to whom she was married from 1934 until his death in 1975. Wellman cast her in several"
"Nancy. Luckett and Robbins separated soon after Nancy's birth, and later divorced. In order for Luckett to support herself and her daughter, she chose to resume her stage career, and arranged to have her daughter live with her sister's family in Bethesda, Maryland, while she toured the East Coast with acting troupes. She would visit her daughter in Maryland when time allowed. While on a voyage to England in 1929, Luckett met Loyal Edward Davis, a pioneering Chicago neurosurgeon. The two were married on May 21, 1929, and moved to Chicago with Nancy. Davis adopted Nancy when she was 14,"
"Nancy Dow Nancy Maryanne Dow (July 22, 1936 – May 25, 2016) was an American actress and model who appeared in a brief group of films and television shows. She was married to actor John Aniston with whom she had a daughter, actress Jennifer Aniston. Dow was born in Connecticut, one of six daughters of Louise (née Grieco) and Gordon McLean Dow. Her maternal grandfather, Louis Grieco, was an Italian immigrant; her other ancestry included English, Scottish and Irish. Dow had five sisters: Linda, Martha, Sally, Joan and Jean. Dow was also married to John T. ""Jack"" Melick, Jr., a"
"of us. She wasn't a 'spoiled diva,' and believe me, if anybody had a right to be a 'spoiled diva,' it was Jane because she has done so much, Oscar Award-winner, I mean, incredible actress, and she was just like clockwork, right there on time, always knew her lines, always ready to rehearse and she had this great affable quality. You just never talked about (Wyman's ex-husband and the then-current U.S. President) Ronald Reagan, that's all. That was one thing we never did; everything else was opened."" At the beginning of the ninth and final season of ""Falcon Crest"", off-camera,"
"Jan Davis Nancy Jan Davis (born Nancy Jan Smotherman, November 1, 1953) is a former American astronaut. A veteran of three space flights, Davis logged over 673 hours in space. She is now retired from NASA. Nancy Jan Davis was born in Cocoa Beach, Florida, but considers Huntsville, Alabama, to be her hometown. The former spouse of astronaut Mark C. Lee, she is currently married to Judge Schuyler Richardson. She graduated from Huntsville High School in 1971, received a bachelor of science degree in applied biology from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 1975 and another in mechanical engineering from"
"and, following their 1912 divorce, to Bessie McCoy, an actress and vaudeville performer, who is remembered for her signature ""Yama Yama Man"" routine. Davis and Bessie had a daughter, Hope. Davis died of a heart attack on April 11, 1916 while on the telephone. It was seven days before his 52nd birthday. His friend and fellow author John Fox, Jr. was surprised by his sudden death, writing, ""He was so intensely alive that I cannot think of him as dead—and I do not. He is just away on another of those trips and it really seems queer that I shall"